A Glendale man was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for his role in a darknet drug trafficking operation that sold cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA, and ketamine to customers across the United States.
36-year-old Davit Avalyan received a 57-month sentence from U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson in Los Angeles after pleading guilty in October 2025 to one count of conspiracy to distribute narcotics.
Avalyan is the last of four defendants to be sentenced in the case. His accomplices, Hayk Grigoryan (also known as Hayk Greg), Gurgen Nersesyan (also known as Guro Tiko), and Hrant Gevorgyan, have already received prison sentences of 10 years, 43 months, and 24 months, respectively.
Prosecutors said Avalyan and his co-conspirators ran the operation from September 2018 to February 2025, maintaining a large network of darknet vendor accounts (including multiple storefronts with names like JoyInc, PlanetHollywood, and LaFarmacia) across multiple narcotics online marketplaces.
According to court documents, the group packaged drugs into parcels and mailed them from post offices and mailboxes throughout Los Angeles County and other locations.
JoyInc, one of the network’s primary accounts, is believed to have launched as early as 2018 and is considered among the most prolific methamphetamine and cocaine distributors ever to operate on the darknet.
“Vendors JoyInc, LaFarmacia, WhiteDoc, JanesAddiction, DaShop, WhiteRepublic, Tomorowland, PlanetHollywood, DopeValley, and Major2Minor sold cocaine, methamphetamine, 3, 4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (‘MDMA’), and ketamine to drug customers on these darknet markets in exchange for cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin and Monero, and shipped the drugs throughout the United States via the United States Postal Service,” the indictment reveals.
Their accounts were active “on several darknet marketplaces, including Dream Market, Wallstreet, Empire, Silk Road 3.1, ToRReZ, Dark0de, World Market, Tor2Door, alphabay, Incognito, ASAP, Ares, MGM Grand, Archetyp, Abacus, DrugHub, and DarkMatter and would sell methamphetamine, cocaine, MDMA, and ketamine to customers across the United States.”
The FBI’s JCODE (Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement) team, a task force focused on dismantling criminal networks that use the darknet to traffic narcotics, led the investigation with support from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the IRS Criminal Investigation, and the Los Angeles Police Department.
Earlier this month, a Taiwanese man was also sentenced to 30 years in prison for operating Incognito Market, a massive online narcotics marketplace linked to over $105 million in illegal drug sales.
In January, a Slovakian national pleaded guilty to helping operate a darknet marketplace that sold narcotics, cybercrime services, fake government IDs, and stolen personal information for more than two years, and a Virginia man who co-created the Empire Market dark web marketplace admitted to federal drug conspiracy charges for facilitating $430 million in illegal transactions.
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